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This book is an action research study of a community at work. The community prevention project set the system in motion, revealing its character and internal dynamics. This process and its context are analyzed from a sociological point of view. It is shown that the type of community prevention that really works and creates sustainable changes, is neither value neutral nor given from above: it adheres to reason, rituals and emotions alike, and requires subjective involvement of the people in the community.

Economists generally accept that competition discloses knowledge, enhances efficiency and restrains power. However, these effects
of competition have so far been discussed mainly with respect to economic markets in which firms and households compete within a given set of institutions, ...

Efforts to counter terrorism are drawing increasingly on community-based initiatives and a partnership between police
officers and members of specific social groups. This book analyses the potential of these initiatives and the role played by factors such as community engagement, ...

Braida (Italian, U. of Durham) explores the complex route and conveyances by which Dante's early-14th-century
Divine Comedy traveled across countries and time to be rediscovered and canonized by the English literary establishment in the early-19th-century Romantic period. After surveying the ...

Robin Haines has analysed the origins, occupations, literacy, and mobilization of emigrants recruited in the
UK on behalf of colonial legislatures. Her exploration of strict selection procedures shows that the symbiosis between the clergy, empire-minded philanthropic societies, and parishes, which ...

This sequel to the author's earlier well-received Euro On Trial, shows how European Monetary Union
became a main engine of the global credit bubble and puts forward a set of remedies which would reduce the danger of further economic debacle ...

'An authoritative survey with exciting new insights of special interest to economists and econometricians who
analyse intertemporal and interspatial price relationships.' - Professor Angus Maddison, Groningen University This book presents a comprehensive review of recent developments in the theory and ...

During the Cold War, Cyprus was of great strategic importance to the West. Britain, the
US, and NATO all had valuable installations there, and any armed conflict between Greek and Turkish Cypriots could easily pull two nearby NATO members-Greece and ...